Pressure mounts on Supreme Court to take up case that tests secret gender transitions at schools

Controversial school policies hiding students’ gender transitions from parents remains a ripe issue the Supreme Court should take up, activists argue, despite the justices already handing parents a win in an emergency docket case on the matter earlier this month.

The Supreme Court’s emergency docket ruling in Mirabelli v. Bonta gave temporary relief to parents in California over the state’s policy of hiding their children’s gender transitions at school, but the Supreme Court could soon take up the issue on its merits docket in the next term. The Supreme Court has two petitions it is considering for its merits docket that would directly address the troubles.

One of the cases, Foote v. Ludlow School Committee, was brought by Stephen Foote and Marissa Silvestri, who say officials at their daughter’s Massachusetts school secretly referred to her as a male during school hours and actively concealed the middle-school girl’s use of a male